First, I want to say thank you to all of you who visited me at my booth in Houston. It was such fun to meet those of you who have come to know my work through the blog and flickr as well as seeing and catching up with old friends. What fun we [...]
Jude over at Spirit Cloth was inspired by Heather who was inspired by…………and so on, to send a little something handmade in the spirit of “making” , something which many of us share.
I’m going to participate but in a slightly different way………
There are so many other things to make note of here I’m not sure [...]
Photo of Kantan (kantan means simple in Japanese) style scarf display for Houston Quilt Festival show. Preview night is Wednesday the 31st (halloween!) where you can purchase the “pick of the litter” from all the one of a kind handmade booths.
I came across this as a result of a google alert.
Which led me to this
I wondered if anyone went to this lecture who would share what you heard? I emailed and asked if the audio file was available online or through iTunes as a podcast and I’m waiting to hear.
Working, working, working. Try [...]
It all started here one year ago. So much thanks to give for all that has transpired this past year. I started this blog with one thing in mind and ended up with so much more. Initially, I viewed it as a place to keep track of what I was doing, sort [...]
When I started making shibori (almost a year ago now!), it didn’t take me long to start looking at it close up. From there I started taking pictures of it and from there, taking pictures of it close up. Soon I realized that I wanted to take better pictures and got a new [...]
More playing with photoshop and some of the shibori photos:
original photo
manipulation in photoshop
Itajime and origami shibori are related. If you have been following Karren Brito’s blog, you’ll know she is teaching us how to do origami shibori based on a workshop she recently attended taught by Pat Freiert (beautiful new website!). Itajime, being the fold and clamp method of shibori, one can come up with [...]
Remember the commercial for peanut butter cups where the boy accidently gets his chicolate bar in the girl’s peanut butter and ……well the shibori found photoshop, my camera, the scanner, and ultimately the printer where it was printed on silk. hmmm…now what?
see what Tricia McKellar does over at note 99
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